UK Companies House Search: Official Company Register
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$5.00 / 1,000 company records
UK Companies House Search: Official Company Register
Search the United Kingdom's official company register, Companies House, by name. Returns company number, status, legal form, incorporation date, address and industry code, each record linked to the official register entry. Open-licensed data, no personal data, $0.005 per company.
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Search Companies House, the official company register of the United Kingdom, by company name. Each record comes from the UK registrar of companies and links to the official register entry, so any value can be checked at the source in one click.
What you get
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
legal_name | Registered legal name |
company_number | The official company number |
status | active, inactive, dissolved, or unknown |
legal_form | Registered legal form |
incorporated_date, dissolved_date | ISO dates |
address_city, address_postcode, address_country | Registered address, at city level |
activity_code, activity_text | Industry classification |
employees_band | Employee count or band, where the register reports it |
previous_names | Former registered names |
last_updated | When the register last changed the record |
verify_url | Link to the official register entry (find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk) |
Why this rather than a scraper
It reads Companies House's official API, published under an open licence that permits commercial re-use. No login, no bot protection, nothing that can break because a website changed its layout.
No personal data. Directors, officers and owners are never returned, and registrations that describe a private individual rather than a company are dropped. You get companies, not a contact list.
Input
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
query | Company name to search for. Required. |
limit | Companies to return, 1 to 2000. You pay per company returned. |
Your own Companies House key (optional)
You don't need one: the UK register works out of the box. Companies House
allows 600 requests every 5 minutes per key, and the built-in key is shared by
everyone using this Actor. If you pull UK data heavily, get a free key from
developer.company-information.service.gov.uk
and put it in companies_house_key. It is stored encrypted by Apify and never
appears in run logs.
Price
$0.005 per company returned, so 50 companies cost about 25 cents. A search that matches nothing costs only the Actor start.
Licensing and attribution
UK data contains public sector information from Companies House, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The attribution is written to every run log.
More than one country?
This edition searches the United Kingdom only. To search the UK, Norway, France, Finland, Czechia, Slovakia and the global LEI register in one query with one schema, use Official Company Registry Search.
